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Social networking as the means to reviving students' flagging literacy skills? This short post gives the background to a bigger study by Andrea Lunsford, the Stanford Study of Writing (which I shall bookmark separately_.

Very useful resource for students and facilitators about he issues of working in groups

This is a really good example of a pretty light touch ePortfolio 'system'. It's actually not an ePortfolio system at all!

I think this is a good example of not only a light-touch approach to ePortfolios but also a more enlightened approach to web publishing in general.

Yes - and nice to see their blogs being used - was looking at some PhD students portfolio's. (Warwick gave all students blogs a couple of years ago risky but looks as if it is paying off, nice blot software used). Raises the issue about public access - but I guess we are getting more relaxed about that?

Student Experience Innovative Practice Report launched

Interesting experiment with peer assessment from a Duke prof. She stopped assigning marks (though she read every piece of work and gave feedback), the students marked each others' work, and the quality of the work improved.

University gives out iphones/ipods to all students and integrates all online/internet functions with them.

Useful for providing feedback to students? I haven't tried it but looks interesting

A way to cut marking time in half (& save yourself from getting repetitive strain injury)! Sounds brilliant. I'm going to try this with my Drapers' Skills Award assessments (as I have Dragon Naturally Speaking on my machine already). I like what he says about making marking into a conversation with students.

Editorial - Becoming Well Read: Charting the complexities of academic reading and navigating the reading journeys of undergraduate and postgraduate students Angela Rhead and Christopher Little

New journal

Self-efficacy - the belief in yourself is an important aspect of learning - this is a useful review of studies